Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

Wolfgang Tillmans revised monograph published by Phiadon

Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans releases an expanded version of the sell out monograph originally published in 2004 through Phiadon. This comprehensive document includes interviews, essays and the artists own writings. Tillmans is one of the most important photographers of his generation in both achievement and subject. He manages to report from within the opaquely tribal worlds of youth and art culture with simultaneous detachment and intimate familiarity. His portraits deliver their subjects to the strangers gaze with disarming candor. His large-scale inkjet prints of aqueous voids threaded with vigorous pigment regularly upstage the works of dedicated abstractionists. He has photographed objects with an eye to startling formal transcendence. As with the epic and seemingly chaotic works of Nobuyoshi Araki the range and scope of Tillmans work can threaten to tip the casual acquaintance into mistaking breadth of activity for undisciplined superficiality. There is no question that the surface is Tillmans playground but as Italo Calvino said "It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible." This book leaves no doubt that the reach and authority with which Tillmans hunts the world's surfaces places him at the forefront of photographic practice

Tweets

"The technology permitting the use of single pure odourants in perfumes arose in the nineteenth century. William Henry Perkin, having studied under Hofmann at the Royal College Of London, announced in 1868 the synthesis of coumarin, a natural perfume chemical with the delicious odour of newly mown grass. This was the first chemical synthesis of a natural odourant. By 1890 at least twenty synthetic odourants were commercially available to French perfumers."- Van Toller & Dodd, 1988, Perfumery : The Psychology And Biology Of Fragrance